Gitmo detainees ruled unconstitutional

What!? Foreign fighters captured in battle with U.S. forces aren’t entitled to their constitutional rights as U.S. citizens? It’s fascism. Bush is a dictator, obviously.

WASHINGTON – Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision of a law at the center of President Bush’s anti-terrorism plan.  ~msnbc.msn.com

Sadly, I expect this common sense ruling will be characterized as a loss of rights for U.S. citizens, in defiance of all logic I might add. But then liberalism’s strong suit has never been logic.

These gitmo detainees are now, themselves, unconstitutional.

“The decision reaffirms the validity of the framework that Congress established in the MCA permitting Guantanamo detainees to challenge their detention” through military hearings coordinated by the Defense Department,” said spokesman Erik Ablin.

Under the commissions act, the government may indefinitely detain foreigners who have been designed as “enemy combatants” and authorizes the CIA to use aggressive but undefined interrogation tactics.

But most criticized by Democrats and civil libertarians was a provision that stripped U.S. courts of the authority to hear arguments from detainees who said they were being held illegally.

Attorneys argued that the prisoners aren’t covered by that provision and that the law is unconstitutional.

“The arguments are creative but not cogent. To accept them would be to defy the will of Congress,” Judge A. Raymond Randolph wrote.  ~msnbc.msn.com